Establishes the AI Gateway as mission-critical control plane for autonomous agents
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks® (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced its intent to acquire Portkey, a pioneer in AI Gateways. Portkey delivers a critical centralized control plane to manage and protect autonomous AI agents, already processing trillions of tokens per month with the low latency required for agent-to-agent communication. By ensuring that security governance never comes at the expense of developer speed, Portkey allows enterprises to accelerate AI innovation with confidence.
As adoption in the enterprise expands from copilots and AI applications to autonomous agents, the AI security gap has significantly widened. These agents act as highly privileged insiders, executing a large volume of automated decisions across internal and external systems. To help organizations address this challenge, Portkey will serve as the AI Gateway for Prisma® AIRS™, acting as the central nervous system that can monitor, route, and secure every AI transaction across the enterprise.
Lee Klarich, Chief Product & Technology Officer of Palo…
